xix, 442 p. : 22 cm

"Modern eloquence founded by Thomas B. Reed."

Seconding the nomination of Roosevelt for president, 1912 / Jane Addams -- Citizenship / Magnus Washington Alexander -- The Kansas Industrial Court / Henry Justin Allen -- Numbers; or, The majority and the remnant / Matthew Arnold -- Women in politics / Lady Astor -- Walk, and not faint / Sir Robert Laird Borden -- True Americanism / Louis Dembitz Brandeis -- The call to the Church to develop a Christian international life / Charles Henry Brent -- True and false democracy / Nicholas Murray Butler -- Fremasonry; ancient and modern / Earl of Carnarvon -- Political parties and women voters ; A call to action / Carrie Chapman Catt -- Patriotism / Joseph Chamberlain -- American Independence Day / Winston Spencer Churchill -- Independence for Ireland / Michael Collins -- The Columbian oration / Chauncey Mitchell Depew -- What the age owes to America / William Maxwell Evarts -- The city and the flag / John Huston Finley -- Supremacy of the Catholic religion / James, Cardinal Gibbons -- Serving your country / George Washington Goethals -- The Irish Free State / Arthur Griffith -- Decoration Day / Thomas Wentworth Higgins -- South Carolina and Massachusetts / George Frisbie Hoar -- Memorial Day / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- Old traditions / Benjamin Grubb Humphreys -- France and Canada ; To Marshal Foch / William Lyon Mackenzie King -- The glories of Duluth / James Proctor Knott -- Which shall rule, manhood or money? / Robert Marion La Follette -- Makers of the flag ; The American pioneer / Franklin Knight Lane -- Armistice Day, 1921 / Martin Wilie Littleton -- Democracy / James Russell Lowell -- The Soldiers' Bonus / William Gibbs McAdoo -- American patriotism / William McKinley -- Persecution of the Jews / Henry Edward, Cardinal Manning -- Farewell to the Senate / Thomas Riley Marshall -- American character / Brander Matthews -- The second birth / Henry Russell Miller -- The American Legion and the nation ; Respect for the flag / Alvin Owsley -- The new Poland / Ignace Jan Paderewski -- Militant suffragists / Emmeline Pankhurst -- Spirit of Odd-fellowship / Alfred S. Pinkerton -- The strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt -- Criticism and preparedness / William Sowden Sims -- Peace and empire / Jan C. Smuts -- Adjusting ourselves to a new era in business / Harry Collins Spillman -- The first settlement of the Jews in the United States ; The Roosevelt pilgrimage / Oscar Solomon Straus -- Private rights and government / George Sutherland -- The Lincoln Memorial / William Howard Taft -- Government regulation / Charles Richard Van Hise -- Return of the flags / Lew Wallace -- Progress of the American negro ; The American standard / Booker Taliaferro Washington -- Work for humanity / Frances Willard -- National preparedness / Leonard Wood -- Appeal for Dreyfus / Emile Zola

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